Job overview
Would you like to enhance your education and training skills? A unique opportunity has arisen to join the Hampshire hospitals professional & practice development team.,
This role is based across the preceptorship and clinical skills teams, who work collaboratively to ensure the provision of high-quality education and training.
Are you a registered healthcare professional who understands the importance of early and onward career support? Do you have the ability to deliver a variety of education and skills-based training in a safe and supportive learning environment? then this is the role for you.
Main duties of the job
Supporting newly registered staff in their first year of practice and the development, coordination, facilitation and delivery of a structured multiprofessional preceptorship education programme
· Facilitation of Schwartz rounds
· Coordination, facilitation, and delivery of the health care support worker induction programmes
· Coordination facilitation and delivery of clinical skills training including intravenous therapy, catheterisation, deteriorating patient recognition and response, medication safety, venepuncture and cannulation.
· Supporting internationally recruited nurses to pass the NMC entrance/OSCE exam and transition to UK practice
Working for our organisation
At Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three hospitals in Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover, as well as in the care we provide in the community. We provide medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire and specialist services to people across the UK and internationally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Working collaboratively with the wider PPD team, other educators, and multi-disciplinary colleagues across the trust.
· Alongside team colleagues and guidance of team leads, co-ordinating, planning, implementing, and evaluating programmes.
· Responding to clinical need and collaborating with relevant stakeholders to regularly enhance and adapt training.
· Ensuring that programmes are regularly reviewed to be up to date, consistent with local and national guidance and frameworks and fit for purpose
· Gathering and processing training data and managing bookings/capacity alongside administrative colleagues and team leads
· To have a working knowledge of the national preceptorship frameworks
· To participate and contribute to relevant communities of practice to develop networks for support and to share best practice.
· Provide pastoral support for newly registered staff as required.
· Promote visibility of the practice and development team across the trust through ward walk arounds and participation in educational promotional activities.
· To support across the wider Professional Development Team as demand requires.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Current nursing or allied health professional registration
2. Educated to degree level or equivalent
3. Evidence of supporting learning in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
4. Leadership and management experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Current experience and specialist knowledge of relevant professional practice
6. Working experience of the NHS acute sector and range of staff groups
7. Mentorship/supervision experience
8. Planning and delivery of educational activities/staff development within an acute health care setting
9. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
10. Collection and evaluation of data e.g. audit
11. Quality improvement/change management experience
12. Knowledge of the national preceptorship framework
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
13. Excellent organisational and time management skills
14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
15. Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with varied staff groups
16. Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
17. Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team as required
18. Ability to innovate and motivate
19. Flexibility and versatility in managing complex and competing work demands
20. IT literate-Word, exel, email
Desirable criteria
21. Ability to utilise a range of education resources and methods e.g Powerpoint.
22. Ability to utilise a range of social media and presentation software
Other
Essential criteria
23. Ability to work across all trust sites
24. Consistent with own professional registration and experience
25. Ability to work clinically to support learning in practice where required
26. Ability to work clinically to support HHFT service delivery in times of high demand as required